Summer Reading + Ice Cream History 101

I know I've mentioned this before, but some of my very favorite posts to read on blogs are book reviews! It's so fun to get new book recommendations and to get a feel for what people's reading preferences are--it's like a little glimpse into who they are! Anyhow, since I love reading book posts so much, I wanted to continue sharing more of my "book reviews" here!

While we were at the beach, I re-read the Divergent series & really enjoyed reading them the second time around! Since we've been home, I've read two books that were new to me.

I first heard about this book from another blogger. She likened this book to Gone Girl, and since I enjoyed Gone Girl I figured this would be a good choice for me! I really enjoyed this book! It's got a super fast pace, and I couldn't put it down! Very suspenseful!

I'd never even heard of Donald Miller before reading this book. And this is definitely NOT a book I would ever pick up on my own, but another blogger recomended this one and it sounded interesting enough to me so I thought I'd give it a whirl. This book was just "eh" for me though. It's a relationship-y book--the tag line on the cover is "dropping the act and finding true intimacy." It's not solely focused on your relationship with your spouse/partner, but more on all relationships in general. There were a few "aha" moments for me in the book, but definitely not one of my favorite reads.

I've got a new author I'm looking forward to trying soon & I'm hoping to read another one of the Killing books in Bill O'Reilly's series since I enjoyed Killing Kennedy so much. I'm obsessed with checking books out from the library onto my Kindle lately, so much cheaper than buying them all the time! The only downfall is the wait list for some of the books can be kind of long, but the plus side is it keeps me looking ahead for new books to try!

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And this is totally random, but when in the world is Blue Bell coming back to us?!?! Since the loss of Blue Bell, I came upon the strangest discovery. I was on the hunt for Edy's ice cream {before we made the switch to Blue Bell, that was always our go-to brand}, but I couldn't find Edy's ice cream ANYWHERE at HEB or Target. However, I did see ice cream with packaging identical to Edy's, but it was called Dreyer's. I thought it was so weird--how have I never heard of a brand called Dreyer's? And how weird is it that it looks exactly like Edy's but has a name that sounds so similar to Breyers? I consulted my good friend Google and was quite intrigued by the answer to my confusion! Apparently, two guys named Dreyer & Edy originally founded the ice cream company in California. In 1947, the partnership dissolved and the brand became known as Dreyer's ice cream. In 1981, the company expanded and readopted the name Edy's for all marketing in the Eastern US to not confuse customers with Breyers, which was already well established in that part of the country. So all of that to say, Dreyer's and Edy's are the same but Breyers is totally different. I had just never heard of Dreyer's b/c we've never lived this far west before. I also thought it was interesting that on Main Street in Disney World, they have an Edy's Ice Cream Parlor; but on Main Street at Disney Land, it's called Dreyer's Ice Cream Parlor. Has anyone else ever been baffled by this ice cream situation, or am I the only one who finds this interesting?! ;)  Either way, there's your ice cream history lesson for the day! :)